The Ploufragan-Plouzané laboratory, with 200 members of personnel, specializes in poultry, rabbit, pig and fish farming. It contributes to improving animal health and welfare as well as to the quality of food of animal origin.

The laboratory studies the agents responsible for major diseases with a major economic impact and the immune potential of animals, develops tools and methods for diagnosis and prevention in animals, analyses the behavioral and health consequences of new farming methods, assesses the risks associated with food consumption and contributes to preventing the bacteriological contamination of food.
As a national and international reference laboratory for several diseases, it provides scientific and technical support for veterinary control (analysis of samples, supplies of reference reagents, quality monitoring of diagnosis laboratory analyses, etc.)

Reference laboratory of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) for Gumboro disease and Aujeszky's disease